NewsFactor - On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that its Xbox 360 video-game and entertainment system has sold more than 10 million units in the U.S., making it the first current-generation gaming console to break that mark. The U.S. installed base contributes to global sales of more than 19 million. -- read full article
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:47:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft Corp. says it is collaborating with the European Environmental Agency to make information about local air and water pollution levels freely available to consumers through Microsoft Web portals.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he's been recruited to lead the proxy fight by Yahoo investors unhappy with the company's refusal to accept Microsoft's bid. -- read full article
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Microsoft is looking at alternatives to ultra-low-cost laptops in the drive to arm people in developing nations with a way to... -- read full article
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:10:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft's "intelligent whiteboard" could potentially show up in corporate meeting rooms, board rooms or classrooms if and when it ever gets productized. -- read full article
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Financier Carl Icahn launched a proxy
battle on Thursday to force Yahoo Inc to reopen buyout
talks with Microsoft Corp , saying the Yahoo board had
acted "irrationally" in refusing its $47.5 billion offer.
Investor's Business Daily - Carl Icahn is turning up the heat in a last-ditch push to get Yahoo and Microsoft back to the bargaining table, but some analysts doubt the effort will be enough. -- read full article
Thu, 15 May 2008 22:49:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The two Internet companies began discussing an advertising partnership after Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo. -- read full article
Thu, 15 May 2008 23:45:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Yahoo fired back at corporate raider Carl Icahn on Thursday, saying he lacks understanding of the Microsoft takeover try and should not follow through on a vow to oust Yahoo's board.
Reuters - Two weeks after Microsoft Corp
abandoned its pursuit of Yahoo Inc, a proxy fight launched by
activist investor Carl Icahn has put Microsoft in the driver's
seat.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp reached an
agreement to make available its Windows operating system
software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop,
the company said on Thursday.
PC World - The One Laptop Per Child Project and Microsoft plan to make both Windows and Linux available on a version of the project's XO... -- read full article
Fri, 16 May 2008 01:10:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Yahoo and Carl Icahn dueled Thursday as the corporate raider vowed to overthrow the firm's board and the Internet pioneer fired back that the billionaire misunderstood Microsoft's failed takeover bid.
AP - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.
